| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | 80 | So let us View more quotes about suppose">suppose these mighty species, to whom we were aliens, and of little independent interest, had arrived at an agreement, that we were to be the dice in their dark game, the dice to be cast on the mat of a world. |
| 21 | 81 | First, how might the dice be balanced; how might they be more equally weighted? The forces of Yamada were large and disciplined, both on the land and sea. |
| 21 | 82 | They were largely in control of the resources of the crucial islands. |
| 21 | 83 | Victory sat upon their banners. |
| 21 | 84 | The devastated forces of Temmu clung to little more than the lofty heights of an ancestral holding. |
| 21 | 85 | How then could the dice of men and war, those of Yamada and Temmu, be better balanced, be more evenly weighted? The house of Yamada had seized the land and the sea. |
| 21 | 86 | What if the house of Temmu might be capable of seizing the air? What of tarns, unknown on the islands? Might these monsters not level a game, and adjust its odds with a more gracious equity? Possibly. |